BeerSmith Mobile Now Available for iPhone/iPad (and Android/Kindle Fire)

Beer Recipe Design on the Go?

I’m pleased to announce the release of BeerSmith Mobile for iPhone and iPad. BeerSmith Mobile brings full recipe design and editing to your iPhone or iPad, and joins last week’s versions released for Android and Kindle Fire.

BeerSmith mobile includes seamless recipe integration via the BeerSmithRecipes.com cloud site so you can drop a recipe in your cloud folder on your desktop, and edit it from your phone or tablet on the go!

Pricing and Availability

BeerSmith Mobile is available at a sale price of $7.99 (20% off) until the end of June. After that the price will be raised to its normal level of $9.99. It is available now for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets and the Kindle Fire.

This app looks great. I don’t really have a PC at home these days… how does it compare to the desktop version? Are there lots of features missing or is it pretty feature complete? As an extract brewer, an AG to extract conversion is important. Looking around at iPad apps for brewing and this is up there… probably not a good place to ask what other good apps there is…

I would say it has almost about 85% of the recipe functionality of the desktop version, with the yeast starter tool being the obvious exception. The mobile version does not have many of the other tools like the calendar and inventory tracking however. But if you want to create, edit and brew recipes the mobile version has what you need.

Sorry – I don’t have printing enabled yet, but just about everything that is on the brewday printout is on the timer page if you open any recipe and click on timer. I actually did a cross comparison when building that page for brewing.

I set the price at $7.99 US, but the app store translates that price for each country based on their own conversion and cost structure for that country. Unfortunately I can’t set the price outside the US – for the most part it is set automatically based on the US price.

I’ve been looking forward to this. I wanted to take advantage of the “in-app” iPhone upgrade you’ve mentioned. I now see on my BeerSmith Lite an upgrade option to “Purchase Upgrade” to add recipe editing, but when I try to use it, the “Confirm … Purchase” pop-up says [Environment: Sandbox] and when I try to buy it with my iTunes account, another pop-up tells me “This is not a Test User account… please create a new account in the Sandbox environment”. I’m completely sandboxed. Should I just continue to wait, or is this a problem that should be fixed? Thanks for a great product that allows free artistic expression in the science of brewing, with the kind of feedback that helps to prevent the undrinkable.

I bought this from google play like two weeks ago and i like the software but I just upgraded to an Iphone. anyway I could avoid being charged twice for the software? I already have the mac desktop software too…

Unfortunately Apple and Google have no way to share licensing data (not surprising if you think about it!).
Also my control over licensing and pricing in the stores is severely limited. They basically give me the option
to set a single price for my app, and I don’t have any way to offer package discounts or even simple coupon
discounts in either app store.

I do apologize…I just have no way within the constraints of the app stores to transfer the license.

A few suggestions to the mobile version: 1. A possibility to email recipes. 2. Dropbox support or similar, with an offline copy of all the synced recipes. 3. Auto conversion of recipes from US to metric & vice cersa, when the settings are changed.

It’s something that already exists in other beer apps and would be lovely to see in Beersmith too.